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144:, did not welcome it, regarding Dunkin as suspect; further Dunkin and Hickey were allies in opposition to Chambers. Hickey's accounts of Chambers in his memoirs, in relation to Dunkin on the court, have been called partisan and misleading, in particular in relation to a bazaar case where 226:
Hickey mentions two sons. One, Edward, came to Bengal with his father in 1791, in his late teens but suffered from fits. According to Hickey, he returned to Europe and died young. He also makes Captain John Dunkin (John Henry Dunkin) of the
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Dunkin married Elizabeth or Eliza Blacker (1739–1822), daughter of William Blacker (1709–1783), in 1764. Their eldest daughter Letitia married Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten, having a family of 16 children, among them
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in 1777. Although he had inherited an estate, he encumbered it with debt, and went to Calcutta to practise as a barrister.
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died in 1794, Dunkin wrote a Latin epitaph, used on his tomb in Calcutta. An English paraphrase was later made by
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Dunkin resigned from the post in 1797, being replaced by John Royds. He had a house in
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Elizabeth Blacker (1739–1822), wife of William Dunkin, portrait by Thomas Gainsborough
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was brought from his sickbed in 1796 as a supporting vote by Chambers against Dunkin.
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Of Dunkin's other children, his daughter Jane married Richard William Wake, son of
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In October 1781 Dunkin was mentioned as on the way to India in a letter from
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knew him as one of a set of wealthy returnees from India; and died at
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Burroughs, William (?1753-1829), of Castle Bagshaw, co. Cavan
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Edmund Lodge; Anne Innes; Eliza Innes; Maria Innes (1860).
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WILLIAM HALSGROVE, ESTHER SIMONS, Theft, 3rd December 1806
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The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and co
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in 1753, as the eldest son of John Dunkin of Bushfoot,
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in August 1791; he had been appointed a member of the
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Index

Irish
Bengal
Middle Temple
County Antrim
High Sheriff of Antrim
Edmund Burke
Lord George Macartney
William Hickey
Stephen Cassan
Phoenix
Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William
Henry Dundas
Lord Thurlow
Robert Chambers
John Hyde
Portman Square
Thomas Reynolds
The Polygon, Southampton
Sir William Jones
Eyles Irwin

William Hay Macnaghten
William Burroughs
Bushmills
Sir William Wake, 8th Baronet
John Bladen Taylor
Hythe
8th Light Dragoons

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